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Personalities, abuse, denunciation, lying, and sometimes downright blows took the place of debate in the struggle. One day religion was an exciting cause; next day, politics. Throughout it all, however, Gennadius was obviously the master-spirit. His methods were consummately adapted to the genius of the Byzantines.
"The duty Your Majesty charged me with this morning " thus Phranza upon recovery of his composure "I attended to." "And you found it?" "Even as Your Majesty had warning. The Hegumens of the Brotherhoods" "All of them, O Phranza?" "All of them, Your Majesty assembled in a cloister of the Pantocrator." "Gennadius again!" The Emperor's hands closed, and there was an impatient twitching of his lips.
What is it you say? One may do well, yet come out badly." "I was at the market in my father Uel's this afternoon," she began, "when Sergius came in." A face wonderfully like the face of the man he helped lead out to Golgotha flashed before the Prince, a briefest passing gleam. "He heard you discourse before the Emperor. How wickedly that disgusting Gennadius behaved!"
The Prince was not allowed to finish the sentence. "What do I understand, O Prince, by the term 'total of doctrine'?" It was the Patriarch speaking. "Belief in God." In a moment the assemblage became uproarious, astounding the Emperor; and in the midst of the excitement, Gennadius was seen on tip-toe, waving his crucifix with the energy of command. "Question a question!" he cried.
His date for he was a real and well-known man was much earlier than that position would indicate, for he was described, among illustrious men, by a writer who lived a full century before Theonus, the last on the list. This writer, Gennadius of Marseilles, informs us that Fastidius was a British bishop.
"Yes," said Constantine, sighing at the sad reminder, "I had intended to assist the Brotherhood. But proceed." "The Brothers, with large delegations from the other Monasteries, were assembled at the tomb, when Gennadius appeared, and began to preach, and he wrought upon his hearers until they pushed the coffin into the vault, and dispersed through the streets, stirring up the people."
In a chance mood of talkativeness, Sarrasin had mentioned the fact that he spoke modern Greek. A good-natured friend invited him to a dinner party with M. Gennadius, the Greek Minister in London, and presented him as one who was understood to be acquainted with modern Greek.
"Gennadius," whispered a cynical courtier to his neighbour, "I hope thou admirest the magnanimity of our sovereign, who deems he is performing a most generous action in presenting Manuel with his cast-off mistress, who has tried to poison him, and with whom he has been at his wits' end what to do, and in dowering her at the expense of another."
He was succeeded by Gennadius, who, during the thirteen years of his episcopate, was faithful both to the creed which St. Leo had preserved and to the dignity of the Apostolic See. He was followed by Acacius, who occupied the see from 471 to 489. There was some quality in Acacius which gained the favour of princes.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent. III. The symbolic books of the GREEK CHURCH, are, The Confession, of her true and sincere faith, which, on the taking of Constantinople, by Mahomet II, in 1453, Gennadius, its patriarch, presented to the conqueror; The Orthodox Confession, of the Catholic and Apostolic Greek Church, published in 1642, by Mogilow, the Metropolitan of Kiow.
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